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title: Isaiah 38:13 (JPS 1917) — The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me. Who acts: I, habitation, Thou. Isaiah 38:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 38:13 · JPS 1917

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The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

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**Who acts:** I, habitation, Thou · **What happens:** make, break · **To what, where:** myself, bones, end

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This is Isaiah 38:13 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, habitation, Thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:816
# text = The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	breaketh	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
26	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | I | myself |  |  | morning | like a lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product |
| 2 | **break** | present | habitation | my bones |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | future | Thou | a end of me |  |  | day; night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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שִׁוִּ֤יתִי עַד־בֹּ֙קֶר֙ כָּֽאֲרִ֔י כֵּ֥ן יְשַׁבֵּ֖ר כָּל־עַצְמוֹתָ֑י מִיּ֥וֹם עַד־לַ֖יְלָה תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃

[Isaiah 38:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.13/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:816` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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